After hanging up, Chen Lin leaned back in his lounge chair, unable to hide the smile on his face.
It was pride straight from the heart.
In high spirits, he casually opened Douyin and Weibo to see how far the storm his queen had stirred up had spread.
He hadn't realized until he looked-and then he couldn't stop grinning.
The entire Internet had gone completely mad.
Of Weibo's top ten trending searches, topics about the Autumn Forest Group occupied a full five spots.
And every single one was charging ferociously toward the top!
#Autumn Forest Group's fifty-million-yuan wager# [Explosive]
#Would you dare take diet pills costing twenty thousand yuan a box?# [Hot]
#Li Pao'er and Da Yuan Ge's wager of the century# [New]
#Business genius or scam of the century?#
#Autumn Forest Group, stop your false advertising#
Countless netizens flooded the related topics: spectators hungry for drama, fans of the brand, professional haters, independent content creators drawn by the commotion...
Everyone was stirring up a storm in this arena of public opinion.
Analysis posts from every conceivable angle sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
A finance influencer with ten million followers offered an in-depth business analysis: "The Autumn Forest Group's move is textbook suicidal marketing! First, they attracted traffic with three hundred thousand yuan in gifts per minute. Then they leveraged two fifty-million-yuan wagers to generate free traffic worth at least five hundred million. If the product is genuine, they'll become legends overnight. If it's fake, they'll collapse instantly, and the founder could even face prison time. This is an all-or-nothing gamble with no escape route. The audacity and madness of whoever is at the helm are enough to make your scalp tingle!"
Experts in the medical field, however, were almost unanimous in their scorn.
The head of endocrinology at